Dell BIOS Passwords

Not my work, just passing this along. if its not needed, or in the wrong place, please delete it.

I noticed that several eBay sellers were providing these master passwords for a small fee. Obviously, this meant that the means to generate these codes oneself was available somewhere on the internet. That’s when I ran across some source code created by Russian hacker hpgl who found the algorithm Dell was using to generate these master passwords for the 595b and 2a7b-type BIOS. You can find the code below:

if (!echo)
fputs("" mystr "\n" \
"Short service tag should be right padded with '*' up to length 7 chars\n" \
"HDD serial number is right 11 chars from real HDDSerNum left padded with '*'\n" \
"Some BIOSes has left pad HDD serial number with spaces instead '*'\n",stdout);

You can also find a compiled Windows binary here:
http-www-megaupload-com/?d=U5PWXFGL
Password: hope
I entered my service tag into the software, and out popped some random letters and numbers. I tried the generated characters in the BIOS and it worked!
Good Luck!